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If my reliable sources at Google and Samsung are to be believed, then India is getting it’s first Gingerbread Android 2.3 device tomorrow. Yes! you read it right – 25th March 2011 and that too at an unbeatable price.

Google Nexus S – S may stand for Samsung, Speed, Superior, Second (First one was the HTC manufactured Nexus One, which was a success in its own way in the countries it was released). Now, before I go on about the device specifications let’s have a look at the hands-on picture of device.

It does resemble a lot with its sibbling Samsung Galaxy S rather than its predecessor Nexus One. And the reason for that is – Nexus S shares a lot of the Samsung Galaxy S components. Powered by the very same 1Ghz Hummingbird processor and having the same 512MB of RAM. So what makes it so special? In my opinion, nothing as it just seems like an over-clocked Nexus One or a faster Samsung Galaxy S thanks to Gingerbread. The only good thing about it is that its the Royal Droid.

Now, let’s read the specs of the Royal Droid. Oh! Before I forget, I call it the Royal Droid because its the first device to be launched with Android 2.3 and also, in the future all the Android updates will first come to this device by its Father – Google Inc.

Now its time we read what’s this Royal Droid all about:

Connectivity

Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900

Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700

HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)

Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g

Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Assisted GPS (A-GPS)

microUSB 2.0

Display

4.0″ WVGA (480×800)

Contour Display with curved glass screen

Super AMOLED

235 ppi

Capacitive touch sensor

Anti-fingerprint display coating

Size and weight

63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm

129g

Hardware

Haptic feedback vibration

Three-axis gyroscope

Accelerometer

Digital compass

Proximity sensor

Light sensor

Processor and memory

1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor

16GB iNAND flash memory

Cameras and multimedia

Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560×1920)

720 x 480 video resolution

H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording

Auto focus

Flash

Front-facing: VGA (640×480)

3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
(stereo audio plus microphone)

Earpiece and microphone

Software noise-cancellation

Battery

Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G
(14 hours on 2G)

Standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G
(29.7 days on 2G)

1500 mAH Lithum Ion

Software

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Android Market

Calendar

Gmail

Google Earth

Google Maps with Navigation

Google Search

Google Talk

Google Voice

Voice Actions

YouTube

If you are grinning reading all the information above or planning to get one for yourself then let me remind you, that I am unbiased blogger and you haven’t read the bad & sad part about the Nexus S.

So let’s Rock & Roll :

No microSD slot

No Gorilla Glass

No 720p video recording

All-plastic body, fingerprint magnet

No Droid-pouch provided like it was in the case of Nexus One.

No DivX and XviD support (no actual video player) out of the box

No dedicated camera key and no lens cover

No FM radio

No smart dialing

Bluetooth 3.0 gone

Now, doesn’t it seem like a stripped down version of SGS and that too an year after it was launched. When the world is awaiting Dual-core processors, Google came out with the hardware that has already been there for an year. I wonder where all the innovation has gone from Google?

Well, that concludes my review for Google Nexus S. Now let’s wait for tomorrow to see if the device actually launches 😉